Member of Talent, Research & Sourcing (Contract)
Anchorage Digital
People & HR
United States
Posted on Jan 31, 2025
As a Member of Talent, Research & Sourcing, you will partner with two recruiters in order to help build top of funnel pipelines for Product, Design, and Engineering roles, including but not limited to security, trading, back-end, front-end, product design, brand design, and product managers. You will have the ability to positively impact the growth of not only the Anchorage Village, but the overall digital assets ecosystem during this exciting financial world evolution. Anchorage Digital is hiring the best-in-class talent across the world. Our goal is to attract, engage, and retain top talent in order to continue to grow and succeed. You will be tasked with deeply understanding the requirements of the roles, working with recruiters and hiring managers, and building our pipelines through strategic sourcing activities.
We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Talent, Research & Sourcing role:
Technical Skills:
- Identify and engage with potential candidates through various channels including job boards, LinkedIn, professional networks, and direct outreach.
- Leverage boolean search strings and sourcing tools like GitHub, Stack Overflow, Google X-ray, and others
- Build and maintain a robust pipeline of qualified candidates for current and future hiring needs within Product, Design, and Engineering.
- Use judgment to assess candidate profiles based on technical stacks and programming languages to identify candidates well-suited for the roles.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and market intelligence to inform sourcing strategies and attract top talent.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Conduct initial screenings to assess candidates’ qualifications, technical skills, and ability to be successful at Anchorage Digital.
- Maintain accurate and thorough documentation within the applicant tracking system (ATS), Lever, LinkedIn, ModernLoop, and our Sourcing Platform.
- Track and analyze sourcing metrics to measure effectiveness and continuously improve sourcing strategies.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Source and recruit for all Anchorage Digital locations, including the United States, Portugal, and Singapore.
- Understand where Anchorage Digital sits within the digital assets ecosystem.
- Clearly articulate Anchorage Digital’s full suite of products and offerings.
Communication and Influence:
- Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to understand job requirements and develop targeted sourcing strategies.
- Drive stakeholder education, by training hiring managers on sourcing strategies, market trends, and candidate engagement best practices, including clear feedback loops to iterate on those strategies.
- Ensure a positive candidate experience throughout the sourcing and initial engagement process.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- Global sourcing experience and/or an ability to quickly and deeply understand different markets, develop sourcing strategies, and execute them.
- Experience working in the crypto industry with Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers.
- Experience sourcing in private, growth stage companies, specifically Series-A - Series-D, where equity is the most valuable piece of the compensation package.
- Extensive experience with high-volume, sourcing in-house or within an agency (preferably both).
- Strong desire and ability to uncover the best talent possible through creative sourcing strategies.
- Spectacular communication skills with the ability to build rapport quickly.
- A desire to be curious, humble and ready to help build a culture of transparency and shared understanding.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- You can share a few stories to share about how you changed someone's life by recruiting them into a great role or opportunity.
- You have experience organizing or participating in internal and external sourcing events, including but not limited to referral lunches, talent mapping workshops, sourcing jams, hackathons, tech meetups, job fairs, and other community events to source top talent.
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
